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Still skeptical after all these years.
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http://www.internetmedicalschool.homestead.com

http://www.chiropractormds.homestead.com/index.html

thats y all this chiropactors get a carribbean md....they wanna b real docs

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/5/prweb383327.htm

There's more on the site. Check out the attached documents. Please distribute-patients are dying!

.... you can find out after he cracks your neck.

I'm just curious where the outrage over MD "quackery" is. While I do agree with Mr. skeptic's points about the whackjobs that "practice" chiropractic medicine, I've seen my share of allopaths that are far from ethical, honest or for that matter are good physicians.

How many people have been killed as a direct result of a chiropractic manipulation?

Last time I checked, 1999, less than one hundred people had been killed as a direct result of a chiropractic manipulation since it's inception in 1895.

Medical mistakes kill more people/year than chiropractic has in over 100 years!! True, MDs treat more complicated conditions but there are a lot of iatrogenic deaths/year.

Jakeislove,

You have a good point. I came across this disturbing news on yahoo just now before coming to valuemd. 22,000 died amid delayed Bayer drug recall: doctor - Yahoo! News
In just one year 22,000 people died from the use of Bayer. This is just one incident. Just add all the other MD iatrogenic deaths/year and it would be probably in the hundreds of thousands. I am not siding with anyone here, but just looking at the facts. However, I still think natural alternatives is the the safest way. Good luck.

Comparing the morbidity and mortality rate btw MD and DC is as much sense as comparing President Bush's brain capacity to Albert Eistein. First of all the high moratality rate in MD, because we actually have to deal with real significant injuries like: Gun shot wounds, septic shock, late stage cancers, complicated infectious disease (HIV), and etc... Mean what lifethreating diseases do DC have to deal with? Please someone informs me on this. I jz love how DC wants to bring out the mortality and morbidity in MD when they have no idea what the responsibilities of being a REAL DOCTOR! Making life and death decisions in matter of seconds or minutes. Just clean up your profession and stop going to outdoor markets for spinal screening before you compare your morditity and mortality rate to REAL DOCTORS!

So you're saying "real doctors" shouldn't have a lower mortality rate than fake ones?

Can't remember where I put the stat but from 1895 to 1998 there were only 99 deaths attributed to a chiropract manipulation. That's pretty decent.

I did a pretty decent job of qualifying that MDs treat more serious conditions but that really doesn't make the amount ot iatrogenic deaths go away.

Only an idiot would say MD/DC educations are comparable. That's not my point at all. But you're far less likely to be seriously injured, harmed or misdrugged after a free lunch by a chiropractor. Especially considering that some of them might wave a crystal over you, LOL!

Ironic. I just really became more active in vmed but really had no idea this level of 'bash anything that isn't an MD' really existed.

Personally, even though there's always going to be a place for chiropractic, I still believe it is a dying art and a D.C. degree doesn't afford its holder the same opportunities as an M.D. That being said, an MD is much, much harder to earn and includes a residency afterwards. I still wouldn't trust any MD I've ever met to adjust C1.

Be well. Have to study but will come back later to read how silly I am.

Well jz think what would this world do without MDs take care the sicks! Let see the mortality and morbidity then. Sure there are risk in any medication or procedure, but jz imagine the world without antibiotics, vaccine, or surgery hmmmm. I think already happened you dont have to imagine it, jz look at the history of the world and all those nice plague that killed millions of people remember; Chlorea, black death, and polio? Yet i cant remember anyone died from subluxated back either hmm. Maybe adjustment can cure polio too.